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Abundant research shows that linguistic barriers can have a negative impact on access to and quality of health care, as well as a patient's health outcomes.1–3 Establishing a culturally appropriate environment, by providing care to nursing home residents in their preferred language, is key in providing good-quality long-term care (LTC) services.4,5 French is one of Canada's 2 official languages. In Ontario, Canada, studies using population-based data have shown that Francophones have a lower...
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Background: Community-based health and social resources can help individuals with complex health and social needs achieve their health goals. However, there is often inadequate access to these resources due to a lack of physician and patient awareness of available resources and the presence of social barriers that limit an individual’s ability to reach these services. Navigation services, where a person is tasked with helping connect patients to community resources, embedded within primary...
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Access to French Language Services, more specifically to long term care beds and specialized dementia care units are not equitable and accessible across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and do not meet the specific needs of the Francophones in terms of location and language needs. Based on the goals of laying the foundation for action-oriented public / private / not-for-profit partnerships (social enterprise), better defining the needs of the Francophone community for specialized long-term...
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The loss of language skills is one of the most challenging aspects of living with dementia. This is particularly true for bilingual individuals, who have difficulty in maintaining fluency in more than one language. Language and culture overlap greatly, with potential implications for the well-being of people with dementia (PWD) being cared for in their ‘second’ language or culture. Our aim was to review the available relevant literature, together with an examination of the potential effects...
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L’offre active de services en français est un principe qui s’est rapidement imposé dans le discours des principaux intervenants dans le domaine de la promotion et de la protection des langues officielles et de la dualité linguistique au Canada. Elle a été intégrée à des politiques, à des règlements et à des lois au palier fédéral et dans plusieurs provinces canadiennes. Plusieurs travaux ont été consacrés aux aspects liés à la mise en oeuvre du principe. Cet article va au-delà de ces...
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